Try This For Extra Motivation
Walking is Fitness
Dave Paul
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 21 August 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Signing up for a race can provide added motivation to walk. During today's ten-minute walk, Dave talks about how walkers are welcome to participate in race events.
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| 0:00.0 | Some people don't realize this is actually an option, and it can be a really, really powerful thing to be a part of. |
| 0:10.9 | Hi, I'm Dave. Welcome to Walking as Fitness. This is a daily podcast providing a little added motivation to get out and take the walk. |
| 0:18.6 | Today's 10-minute walk starts right after this. |
| 0:21.6 | Okay. to get out and take the walk. Today's 10 minute walk starts right after this. |
| 0:27.6 | I don't know how long this is going to last. I'm in the woods. |
| 0:29.6 | Walking along the wooded trail. |
| 0:32.6 | It's been kind of buggy lately. |
| 0:35.6 | And anytime I'm back here in the morning tend to get some mosquitoes, which I don't mind |
| 0:45.4 | one, maybe two, but when it feels like I've got a bunch of them and I'm kind of fighting them off, |
| 0:54.4 | that's when it's not so much fun to be back here. |
| 0:56.6 | So we'll see how long it lasts. |
| 0:59.9 | I want to read a message and I'm not entirely sure. |
| 1:02.8 | Oh, Robert. |
| 1:04.7 | It's from Robert. |
| 1:06.8 | This is a comment to a walking-us fitness YouTube video. |
| 1:11.6 | I listen to your podcast most days it helps to keep my motivation high. |
| 1:16.6 | A couple of days ago, a friend and I decided to train to hike long distances |
| 1:23.6 | to prepare for a pilgrimage in France that is centuries old, but was revived in recent times. |
| 1:31.1 | It involves a three-day hike 20 miles a day. 20 miles a day is about 40,000 steps. Okay, so back to |
| 1:41.2 | Robert. I have a year to train, but next week will involve ramping up my walking. |
| 1:47.7 | I have an old backpack with books in it to carry on a daily walk. |
| 1:52.8 | The straps are uncomfortable, so I'm getting a rocking vest as well. |
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